Holywell or Halliwell, Northumberland
Historical Description
Holywell or Halliwell, a colliery village and a township in Earsdon parish, Northumberland, 1½ mile from Earsdon, and 4½ miles NNW of North Shields, with a station for goods on the N.E.R. Post town, Newcastle; money order and telegraph office, Seaton Delaval. Acreage, 1376; population, 2782. An institute, with library, reading and billiard-rooms, was opened in 1892. The manor belongs to the Duke of Northumberland. Coal is extensively worked, and there is a mineral spring.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northumberland | |
Civil parish | Earsdon | |
Poor Law union | Tynemouth | |
Ward | Castle |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Holywell or Halliwell from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Holywell or Halliwell are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: